John reid



(No Model.)

J. REID. SEAT FOR WATER OLOSETS.

No. 454,545. Patented June 23,1891.

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN REID, OF YONKERS, ASSIGNOR TO THE J. L. MOTT IRON VORKS, OF

NElV YORK, N. Y.

SEAT FOR WATER-CLOSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,545, dated June 23, 1891.

Application filed February 24. 1890. Serial No. 341,389. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: hinged to the seat-plate b, the opening for Be it known that 1, JOHN REID, a citizen the flushing-pipe f only passes through the of the United States, residing at Yonkers, in seat-plate b. the county of Westchester and State of New The angle at the junction of the wall and 5 York, have invented a new and. useful Imseat or lid-plate and the opening for the flushprovement in Seats for WVater-Glosets, of ing-pipe are unsightly and present an unwhich the following is a specification. finished appearance that is not acceptable In the present style of plumbing appliand the parts are not easily kept clean. To ances the requirementis that everything shall overcome this objection I provide an orna- IO be visible, easily got at for cleaning, highly mental angle-plate of metal h, which is preffinished and polished, and that there shall erably polished andis adapted to rest against not be any unsightly or open joints. the wall 6 and upon the top of the lid-plate In seats for water-closets as heretofore con- 0 or seat-plate Z) and cover up the joint bestructed the back edges of the seat and lid tween said parts, and said plate has a curved 15 plates are against the wall and there is an central portion adapted to fit around the opening through them for the flushing-pipe flushing-pipe f, and said plate is of suificient and the joint at this part of the closet preheight to hide the opening made through the sents an unsightly and unfinished appearseat or lid plate for said flushing-pipe f. ance and it cannot be kept clean. The plate It is to be secured in place by 20 My invention relates to an angular ornascrews passing into the lid-plate c or into mental plate of metal which is adapted to the seat-plate b in cases where a lid-plate is rest against the wall and upon the top of the not used. This ornamental angle-plate 7t lid or seat plate and to fit around the flushadds greatly to the appearance of the watering-pipe and make an acceptable and fincloset and makes a desirable finish and the 2 5 ished appearance at this place and exclude parts are easily kept clean.

dust and dirt from the junction of the seat I claim as my invention and cover plates with the wall. 1.. As a new article of manufacture, the an In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of gular ornamental plate of metal adapted to a closet-seat and lid. Fig. 2 is a vertical secfit the angle between the wall and closet seat 0 tion of the same, and Fig. 3 is an elevation and having a recess and acurved ornamental endwise of the angle-plate and section of the upwardlyextending portion adapted to fit seat-plate. around the flushing-pipe, substantially as set a represents the ornamental porcelain or forth. earthenware bowl, which is of well-known 2. The combination, with the water-closet 5 construction. seat, the plate extending back to the wall, 19 represents the closet-seat, and c the lid to and the flushing-pipe passing through such the same. plate, of an ornamental angle-plate of metal The closet-seat b is hinged to the seat-plate adapted to rest upon the seat or lid plate and b and said seat-plate is supported, in the against the wall and with a recess for the ,0 usual manner, by brackets fastened to the flushing} pipe, and an upwardly-extending wall. The lid 0 is connected by hinges d to flange around such pipe, substantially as the lid-plate c, and said lid-plate rests upon specified. and is connected to the seat-plate b. The Signed by me this 11th day of February, back edges of the seat-plate b and lid-plate A. D. 1890.

5 0 come up against the wall 6 and an opening JOHN REID.

is made centrally through both of these Witnessesf plates for the flushing-pipe f from the cistern. A. G. THOMSON, If the lid-plate c is not used and the lid be HENRY MORTON 

